Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

It's going back together slowly now.

Do you have an AXS dropper post to speed up the process?

Yes

I do need to get my brake lever clamps out of the cancer fluid that they’ve been in for some time mind.

You're right it should be at the end of the shaft and not move, but in that photo it looks like it's stuck to the damper end at 30% sag.

It’s just been slid up to mark the 30% sag point for the photo. Even if it was left there it would slide back down with minimal resistance and stay there.

I just stripped the lower linkage joining bolt threads - fucksticks.

This thread is the forum equivalent to a soap opera, swinging from disaster to frustration with occasional moments of joy. Depressing yet strangely compelling.

Re the threads - How? Why?

Can you buy a single speed hardtail with a lauf fork and shimano brakes please, so you can have a bike that has minimal maintenance issues?

I genuinely want to read about you going and riding your fucking bike.

stripped the lower linkage joining bolt thread

How?!
I suppose it’s easy to do when you don’t own a torque wrench….

Because I'm an idiot and nipped it up with an Allen key, rather than getting it finger tight then using the torque wrench (which I'd used on every other bolt FML) to bring it up to 13Nm.

Anyway, M6 helicoil kit should be here tomorrow.

Depressing yet strangely compelling.

Haha it really is.

I think Neil should quit his job, become a bike mechanic and document it on YouTube.
Don’t take any training, just start taking on customers bike asap

Dibs Neil's job

M6 helicoil kit should be here tomorrow.

Oh shit. Is something stripped in the frame or one of the replaceable linkages?

Dibs anything that goes in the bin when the shop opens

I think Neil should quit his job, become a bike mechanic.

I might actually hire him as a Magura brakes specialist.

Seriously thought, it's a common brakes around Fulham with their electirc/cargo bicycle.

"the reason your levers getting spongy is because the hosing got kinked underneath the cargo tray"

Oh shit. Is something stripped in the frame or one of the replaceable linkages?

Lower linkage/rocker. Surprisingly small amount of bolt/thread engagement (around 5mm) for an M6 bolt I thought, but what do I know.

it's a common brakes around Fulham with their electirc/cargo bicycle.

I seen an electric cargo bike today in Glasgow city centre. Hadn’t seen this type before and I thought of this thread when I noticed it had Magura brakes.

Ah ok. The linkages are or at least should be fairly cheap to replace. Easily acquired from Pace? I can never have 100% faith in helicoils

I have ordered a new one from Pace- but literally nothing to lose seeing if I can fix this one. Also, the M6 bolt I stripped the thread on is parallel and a couple of mm away from an M8 that joins the two halves of the rocker and sandwiches the lower shock eye.

I’m unsure how much the M6 actually does when the shock bolt is there.

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Stripped one goes next to the visible bolt in the cam shaped hole:

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I’m unsure how much the M6 actually does when the shock bolt is there.

Yeah I see what you mean. Probably not too critical once the shock is bolted up.

But, I will replace/repair.